Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
- Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
The Farmer-Labor Party was a political party. Although it was primarily Minnesota-based, it had a presence in other states. It was founded in 1918 and merged with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944. [cite web| title =Farmer Labor Party| publisher =Spartacus| url =http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfarmerlabor.htm| accessdate =2007-08-31]
The party had a good deal of success in Minnesota as a statewide third party, with three governors and four U.S. senators serving during the 1920s and 1930s. The party platform called for protection for farmers and labor union members, government ownership of some industries, and social security laws. There were attempts to develop the party into a national Farmer-Labor Party in the early 1920s. In the state of Washington there were three members of this party in the lower house of the state legislature.
The Minnesota Democratic Party, led by Hubert Humphrey, was able to merge the Farmer-Labor party with the Minnesota Democratic Party on April 15, 1944. Since 1944, the two parties together make up the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
*Minnesota Governors who were Farmer-Labor
**Floyd B. Olson (1931–1936)
**Hjalmar Petersen (1936–1937)
**Elmer Austin Benson (1937–1939)
*United States Senators from Minnesota who were Farmer-Labor
**Henrik Shipstead (1923–1941) "later became a Republican"
**Magnus Johnson (1923–1925)
**Elmer Austin Benson (1935–1937)
**Ernest Lundeen (1937–1940)
References
External links
* [http://www.minnesotafl.blogspot.com/ Minnesota Farmer-Labor]
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfarmerlabor.htm Farmer-Labor information page]
* [http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/flp/farmerlaborparty.html The Farmer Labor Party 1918 – 1924] Organizational history of attempts to form a national Farmer-Labor Party. [http://www.marxists.org Marxist Internet Archive] . Retrieved May 26, 2006.
* [http://justcomm.org/fla-hist.htm TOWARD THE COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH] : AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF THE FARMER-LABOR MOVEMENT IN MINNESOTA (1917-1948). 232 page online copy of Thomas Gerald O'Connell's 1979 Phd thesis from [http://www.tui.edu The Union Institute] .
Further reading
* [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page94.html American Communism and Anticommunism: A Historian’s Bibliography and Guide to the Literature]
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